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Instantánea de la basura en Toronto

Description: The City of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) is home to nearly 3 million people living near the shores of Lake Ontario. In 2023, litter traps were installed at three locations in the harbourfront and maintained over a period of five months. These trash capture devices intercepted floating litter and prevented it from flowing farther downstream. The goal? To stop litter in its tracks and raise public awareness about the flow of litter downstream to the ocean.
Date: March 31, 2025
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Perspectivas de las ciencias sociales sobre prácticas de manejo en los pastizales centrales de América del Norte

Description: The Central Grasslands of North America support critical biodiversity and human communities, yet continue to decline due to cropland conversion, climate change and other threats. This literature review synthesizes existing conservation social science research to better understand how grassland management decisions are made and how this knowledge can be more effectively integrated into conservation delivery. Using a systematic review approach, the literature review analyzes 104 sources, includin… more
Date: March 18, 2026
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En balance: Emisiones y transferencia de contaminantes en América del Norte, 2009

Description: North American PRTR data show that total releases and transfers reported by facilities across the region increased from more than 5.1 billion kilograms (kg) in 2014 to almost 5.3 billion kg in 2018. On-site disposal or releases to land, together with off-site transfers to recycling, accounted for approximately two-thirds of the annual totals, while releases to air and water accounted for approximately 7% and 4%, respectively.
Date: March 27, 2023
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Instantánea de la basura en Chiapa de Corzo

Description: The City of Chiapa de Corzo (Chiapas, Mexico) is located on the shore of the Grijalva River, upstream of the Sumidero Canyon National Park. The Chiquito River meanders through Chiapa de Corzo before it flows into the Grijalva River. In 2023, litter traps were installed and maintained at three locations in the Chiquito River over a period of five months. These in-stream devices intercepted floating litter and prevented it from flowing farther downstream. The goal? To stop litter in its tracks an… more
Date: March 31, 2025
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En balance: Emisiones y transferencias de contaminantes en América del Norte, 2006

Description: Feature Analysis: Pollutant Releases to Surface Waters. This edition of Taking Stock presents an overview of the releases and transfers of pollutants from North American industrial sectors in 2006, the most recent data available from all three countries at the time of writing.
Date: March 28, 2011
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Un solo destino: la sustentabilidad

Description: The report focuses on North-South (and equally, South-North) freight transportation between Canada, Mexico and the United States. The principal environmental goal examined was to find ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which account for 95% or more of all freight transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Importantly, measures to improve the GHG performance and energy efficiency of the transportation sector also carry significant air quality co-benefits.
Date: March 29, 2011
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Plan de acción regional de América del Norte sobre mercurio: Fase II

Description: The purpose of the North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on Mercury is to provide the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States with a path forward in their joint and differentiated efforts to reduce the exposure of North American ecosystems, fish and wildlife, and especially humans, to mercury through the prevention and reduction of anthropogenic releases of mercury to the North American environment.
Date: March 16, 2000
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Edificación sustentable en América del Norte

Description: In this report, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recommends that North American leaders make green building a foundational driver for environmental, social, and economic improvement in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Date: March 13, 2008
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Edificación residencial sustentable en América del Norte

Description: The intention of this paper is to propose a North American vision to promote residential green buildings in Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a way to positively impact global issues such as pollution, dependence on fossil fuels, resource scarcity, loss of natural habitat and species, and climate change.
Date: March 13, 2008
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Estrategias institucionales para impulsar la edificación sustentable

Description: This document analyzes the existing legal and institutional frameworks in Mexico in relation to construction activity with the purpose of identifying the obstacles to, and the potential for, green building in the country. Recommendations are included in each section with a view to smoothing the path towards achieving the sustainability objectives for building projects in Mexico posited in Paper One: Green Building Energy Scenarios for 2030.
Date: March 13, 2008
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Edificación residencial sustentable en América del Norte

Description: The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to a shared North American (Canada, Mexico and the United States) vision of green building in the residential sector, as a response to the challenge represented by climatic change and its consequences. In particular, this paper is intended to offer a current and future diagnostic assessment of green building in Mexico and to identify the obstacles and driving factors that in the future will hinder or permit the creation of a green building ma… more
Date: March 13, 2008
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Hacia la consolidación del financiamiento y los mercados para la edificación sustentable

Description: The public is starting to demand that a company, its products and services are environmentally sensitive and it is increasing companies’ corporate and social responsibility reporting. Business, finance and corporate perspectives are thus starting to adapt to this shift in demand. There is however, reasonable question whether there is a link between value and the environment because certain indicators have historically been unable to conclusively demonstrate extra value. More recent or comprehen… more
Date: March 13, 2008
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Hacia la consolidación del financiamiento y los mercados para la edificación sustentable

Description: The purpose of this report is to describe, from an economic-financial viewpoint, the main elements that influence the green building market, and to emphasize that Mexico must implement financial policies if it aims to reduce carbon emissions and optimize the country's natural resources.
Date: March 13, 2008
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Escenarios energéticos de la edificación sustentable para 2030

Description: This report documents the preliminary findings and implications of a study entitled "Green Building Scenarios" undertaken under the auspices of the CEC project "Green Building in North America: Opportunities and Challenges."
Date: March 13, 2008
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Estudios de caso sobre financiamiento en materia de energía renovable

Description: This present report, therefore, pulls together information on policies and programs, and will describe some case studies that can provide guidance for Canada, Mexico and the United States. Based on the report, the CEC will create a clearinghouse web site where information on renewable energy policies can be found. At the first stage, this report will focus on both smallscale and utility-scale renewable energy programs. It will concentrate on those financial initiatives that bring technologies o… more
Date: March 21, 2006
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Cadenas Competitivas de Proveedores

Description: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has obtained significant results from the first stage of the Greening Supply Chains project, which is designed to test an effective, replicable cooperation-based mechanism for promoting pollution prevention in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that supply major companies.
Date: March 31, 2008
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Estudio temático 1. El maíz en México: Algunas implicaciones ambientales del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte

Description: The purpose of this study is to consider the environmental implications of expanded North American trade and investment under NAFTA by implementing and developing a general framework being constructed by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s NAFTA Effects Project.
Date: March 1, 1999
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Mecanismos para el rastreo de las importaciones y exportaciones de mercurio para uso y disposición en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México

Description: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation's (CEC) North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on Mercury is intended to assist the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States in reducing the exposure of North American ecosystems, fish and wildlife and humans to mercury, through the prevention and reduction of anthropogenic releases of mercury to the North American environment.
Date: March 1, 2003
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Adquisiciones verdes: Buenos ejemplos ambientales para la población de América del Norte

Description: Many organizations worldwide are making an effort to purchase products and services that are less harmful to local and global environments. Both public and private sector organizations in North America are implementing purchasing practices that include environmental (and social) considerations-green procurement. These activities are part of a broader movement toward more sustainable forms of production and consumption.
Date: March 1, 2003
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Requisitos de divulgación de información ambiental en la normativa sobre valores bursátiles y normas de contabilidad financiera de Canadá, Estados Unidos y México

Description: The idea that capital markets accurately incorporate all relevant publicly available information has become enshrined as the "efficient markets" theory, with wide and influential support (Fama 1970). Its basic justification lies in the demonstrated difficulty investors have in consistently achieving abnormally high returns through any trading strategy. The opposite position, that capital markets will not accurately incorporate information that is not publicly available, is central to the disclo… more
Date: March 22, 2002
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Plan estratégico de cooperación para la conservación de la biodiversidad de América del Norte

Description: Subsequently, a project to define the focus and long-term agenda of CEC’s Conservation of Biodiversity Program was approved by Council in late 1999. In 2001, Council Resolution 01-03 (Appendix 2) established the Biodiversity Conservation Working Group (BCWG) to guide and assist the Parties in finalizing the (Strategic Plan) and to provide advice to the Council for its implementation according to the above-mentioned Resolution. The Terms of Reference for the BCWG are provided in Appendix 3. The… more
Date: March 11, 2003
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Especies invasoras, agricultura y comercio

Description: Command and control policies follow the traditional regulatory approach that defines rules that are constraints on individual behavior. These constraints usually take the form of pollution standards or Pigovian taxes. However, standards and taxes are often difficult to enforce in the agricultural sector because of the non-point source nature of most agriculture pollution. As a result, many jurisdictions have chosen to define acceptable production practices that producers must adhere to.
Date: March 3, 2003
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